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Good point. I like Riker as well. Wasnt he suppose to get some command? 349752[/snapback] If I rcall, in the show he turned down a few promotions because commander of the Enterprise sounded like a better job than captain of some other ship. He's still a commander as of the last movie. Brief google search shows he got a field promotion to captain when Picard was assimilated, but it sorta got brushed under the rug in future episodes. Sulu got a command, though.

It's funny, but it wasn't until I reread this quote and went back and watched some episodes that I realized just how much I enjoyed that aspect of the show. That's another thing that grounded Sisko in reality as a person and a character, in addition to making some very good TV. 349598[/snapback] I think that might've been part of why I typically list DS9 as my favorite Trek. It was much mroe a character-driven show than an event-driven one. Though I did like DS9 less in the end. Particularly when the writers decided to make Sisko absolutely definitely the Prophet of Bajoran religion. Initially he just did his thing, and tried to dissuade the bajorans of the notion he was some sort of religious figure. But towards the end, they went all-out hardcore Bajoran-Bible-thumper with him. ... But Enterprise still has the worst ending in the entire franchise. I flipped it off after about 5 minutes, and I sat through the entire run of Voyager.

You have got to be kidding me. There's quite a few episodes where he would knock someone out with a judo chop to the back of the neck ala Austin Powers! He would use that goofy two handed hammerblow to a man's back and knock him out... How in the world do you knock a person out with a hammerblow to the back?! Hell, if he was that effective with that move, he shoulda been a PRIDE Full Contact champion! Knockout via hammerblow, 5 seconds into the first round, Kirk wins!!!! The funniest move I ever saw Kirk pull off was where Chekov or Sulu went nuts and tried to fight him in the medical bay. Chekov lunged with his knife while there was a bed between them. Hilariously enough, Chekov came up a whole foot short, so Kirk actually pulled on Chekov's wrist pulling him so Chekov was face down over the bed and followed it up with a judo chop to the back. A JUDO CHOP TO THE SHOULDER BLADES!!! RENDERING HIM UNCONSCIOUS! :lol: 349573[/snapback] Would you believe it's a primitive form of the vulcan neck grip?

Interesting point up there... Picard IS a really good example of who you'd want leading YOU. Unfortunately, those people don't make for very good television.

That's actually an excellent point there, especially when you look at Picard. I've always enjoyed his perfection and blind sense of duty and obligation, but his character never really made sense to me when they tried to portray his youth as being "brash, arrogant and cocky," and always at the center of trouble; how would you go from that to being a model of perfection? 349448[/snapback] Getting stabbed in the heart usually changes people. 349486[/snapback] Usually makes them a tad less animated than Picard was, though.

OK, having never played either game, I was able to research a few things. The first figure is Milia and Max's daughter (can't recall her name off the top of my head) who appears in the "Macross 2036" game. The other two figures are characters from the "Macross: Eternal Love Song" game that appears to take place during or close to the same year. Anyone who has more detailed info is invited to chime in... 349441[/snapback] Wel... both games are non-canon. 2036 is a fun sidescrolling shooter. It seems to depict a mission to capture a second factory satellite. Kamjin and LapLamiz seem to be back for more, their death in both the TV series and D?YRL notwithstanding. Possibly just the next iteration of clones. Eternal Love Song is a strategy RPG. I've never played it.

ZANAC!

Whoa, a trio! 348963[/snapback] Please don't go Keanu on us! But dude, trenchcoats are SO COOL!

Regardless of vacation status, it's a glint in MY eye...

Whoa, a trio! ... I really SHOULD download, I mean LEGALLY ACQUIRE, a copy of the SRPG those other 2 come from. To heck with teh language barier.

What is this "s'no" of which you speak?

Well, there's at least ONE plus...

I actually say that to myself as I take a crap every day. I actualy chant it. 348952[/snapback] I say it while peeing. Taking a crap just seems more like a missile strike.

A tragic tale of chemical abuse gone wrong.

*twitches* Talk about not knowing what to do with a franchise.

It's kinda hard to say that when every time you interact with the fans, tehy go "What happens next?!?!?! Huhhuhuhuh???

It's kinda funny that the main site is described as a "splash page."

So I wonder if they're going to CG all the man beasts or if they're going to go with guys in suits like the power rangers.... 348304[/snapback] Well, the "heroes" already wear the right outfits for sentai-style cinema...

So yeah... how about that blue hair...

" And they all lived happily ever after. Except Gendo. But he was a prick, and no one really cared anyways."

It's okay. He's awesome enough to punch through and become the Napolean conquerer type of french.

I ain't no physicist, but wouldn't you be able to escape the pull of the black hole if you were traveling faster than the speed of light (is that even possible for anything with mass?)? Maybe. The closer you get to the singularity, the faster you need to go. The event horizon is where escape velocity exceeds c. Anything just inside the horizon will be able to escape with a small degree of speed above c, but the further in you go the less practical it becomes. But gravitational forces will rip you apart before you get to the event horizon anyways. I don't think it's ever been specified. The implication seems to be an alternate universe, with slightly diffrent physics to us, partially due to the stated diffrence in time rates between fold space and real space. http://macross.anime.net/story/encyclopedi...fold/index.html The compendiuum says you jump into and out of a parallel space. They also say nearly instantaneously, but that's relative to the time the trip would take with conventional sublight propulsiion, so... The jump from Earth to Pluto seemed to have been near-instantaneous, though. Doesn't really provide a reliable measure, though. If they didn't, they'd've still been in the solar system when the Macross 7 launched. So yeah, they did. They could've had a malfunction of some sort. Or just not been able to prep the fold engines in time. Or gotten attacked by aliens. Again, it's not specified that they fell into a black hole. ALL we know is htat communication was lost near the center of the galaxy, and that Kawamori doesn't want to touch Hikaru, Misa, and Minmay again.

We do not speak about that movie!

Sorry, but super-massive black holes aren't wormholes (which may not even exist anyway). They crush everything into literal non-existence. Under some models black holes actually DO punch through and come out the other side of the universe. But as you observed, the gravity is gonna rip things apart before you get there. So they'd come out the other side as a stream of subatomic particles.

Through downloads of ROM images. The system is 99.99999999% guaranteed to be emulating everything but GameCube. Nintendo's already got commercial emulators of the NES, SNES, and N64 on the 'Cube(EA released a boxing game with an emulation of Super PunchOut). Not really.The PS2 kept a lot of PS1 hardware onboard. Original PS CPU is used as an input processor on the PS2, and I've been told the video hardware is backwards-compatible to some degree. So it's a lot like a Gameboy Advance playing 8-bit games(but not totally, as the PS2 uses some degree of emulation). The 360 is a totally diffrent system. There's no hardware commonality. It's more like the SNES and N64, 2600 and 5200, Saturn and Dreamcast, or *insert combo here*. It's all emulation, and MS is apparently running through on a per-game basis instead of just opening the emulator to everything. That or they're just only letting it run fully-tested games. Either way, it's locked to support of select games, with patches to come later. Personally, I think they should've made a general emulator and opened it up, especially given they're insisting everything will run eventually. Instead of flat-out TELLING people that this game won't run and not letting them try, they should provide a polite note that it hasn't been tested and may exhibit glitches and let them try to play anyways. The Sony way, if you will. Sidenote: a handful of PS1 games exhibited severe bugs on the PS2, some to the point of unplayability. Updates to the PS1 drivers fixed some of these issues, but not all of them. Actually, neither company owns all the rights. The PS2, admittedly, is almost all custom components. The DVD and RAM are the only parts I know of that someone else holds rights to. The PS1 they don't own the CPU or drive on. The RAM is a free standard on that one, as far as I know. Nintendo's always used variants of standard processors. And the tech in the SNES' sound box is SONY'S, of all people. More for it's embracing of online game distribution as a major selling factor. Emulation's not that new.